Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Hornsby

That person who's going to a concert for a nostalgic reason, we're not really going to placate. We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.

Birdy

My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing my own songs, and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I'm trained classically, which is a big influence on me, I think.

Jenni Rivera

Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

Boris Vian

The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.

Andrae Crouch

I love a song that will usher in the very presence of God. Then there's no Andrae; there's no fabulous band, there's no greatness of ours. I've had hundreds of concerts like that, and that's what I try to achieve.

Sophie B. Hawkins

There is something about the stage that makes it so much better than being in the studio. I always connect with my audience; a concert to me is a collaboration between me and the audience, and I love it so much.

We're not in the concert business, but we would like to do two or three shows a year.

We learned that not all concerts are created equal. We'll look at the schedule before and after the dates and we'll look at the size of the show.

We're trying to make the concert series even more special than it was before; it's tough getting people out of their houses anymore... we're trying to reach out to the community, get other organizations involved and do more with the people.

This will be a little something different, ... It will be like the old-time concerts for families in the park.

Leonard Slatkin

I'm not particularly lucid after a concert. I'm not very lucid before, either.

Nobuo Uematsu

After the fantastic support received at the first concert in Los Angeles, I am thrilled and honored to extend the experience to Chicago. I'm looking forward to sharing the moments with those who love the music and games of FINAL FANTASY.

Rule of thumb is that every concert set, which includes rehearsals, costs about $10,000.

Mark Shapiro

This industry relies too much on big rides. We have to diversify. We have to focus on more concerts and more themed attractions.

A lot of people, especially songwriters, like house concerts because they're so intimate, ... It's relaxed and people get to hear the stripped-down version of the songs, not an artist's interpretation or version of a song.

Dave Chappelle

This is the concert I've always wanted to see.

There will be maybe just one or two sentences to describe the piece or the composer, so it will be an educational concert as well.

There needs to be a concert like this. We have an extraordinary trombone section (in the Utah Symphony), and NOVA needs to feature sections, as well as individual players.

You can't have wild game dinners without wild game. And you can't have wild game dinners without hunting. And those things have to be done, and they have to be done in concert for the good of conservation and the great fellowship that we have.

Boris Yeltsin

I decided not to go to the concert because I was tired, and I returned to the hotel to sleep,

Early on, we were the only place in town other than Starlight (Musicals) and places like Market Square (Arena) that did concerts, ... This was 'the' concert venue at the time, and we did 35 or 40 concert dates a year. Pretty soon there were eight other places in town.

Colin Blunstone

As soon as we were on stage, it felt like we'd played our last concert two weeks before,

We are very pleased that Mr. Purviance has decided to have his first concert in Hawaii at the Palace Theater.

John Battelle

I sense that the sea of smart phones lit up at concerts is a temporary phenomenon. The integration of technology, sharing, and social into our physical world, on the other hand, well, that ain't going away.

I've been to many great concerts at Mishawaka,

We sold everything by three o'clock. Hundreds of hats and all the drums. We went into the concert and I saw hundreds of people dancing and having fun and wearing my hats.

We miss him. That concert was the last time we played on stage together. We did a couple of tracks from A Rock In The Weary Land.

We'll just see, if they are permitted, how the concert goes.

Ozzy Osbourne

I advise that pregnant women do not come to my concerts.

I don't think the solution is in the canyon, ... I don't think that's a good place for a concert of the size that he would like to hold there.

Miranda Hart

In my head, I have the most sensational singing voice. I perform concerts to thousands in the shower. The reality is I can hold a tune. The dream is a West End musical one day - no, really!

It is our intention to specifically notify (patrons) who have tickets to concerts that we think are in real jeopardy, and encourage them to exchange them for another concert.

Jonny Greenwood

It's funny, but to me, when you go to a concert hall and hear electronic pieces from the '60s, I think they sound really dated. But when an orchestra plays a piece from that period, and it's going to sound different every time, it feels more modern to me.